River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-28

Mrs. Fosdick, the wife of A. n. Fos-
dick left her home at Montivideo, Wednes-
day afternoon, and was seen on the streets
of Montivideo at dusk that evening. Search
for her had been made and no trace of her
whereabouts found on the end. Mrs Fosdick
has recently been discharged from the in
sane asylum at st. Peter, and it is sup
posed that she has again become insane.
Milwaukee special: John Burnham,
an old and widely known citizen, was
brought home Sunday from Grand Rapids
on a boat, badly injured. While in bed in
a Grand Rapids hotel he dreamt that he was
on board a steamer which had taken fire.
He jumped from bis bed and out of the
window. He fell on a projecting roof which
broke his fall, but he was badly injured.
Thursday afternoon as Henry
Luitens, farmer living six miles from
Hutchinson. Mimi, was at work in the har-
vest field, his team ran away and Mr..
LuJens, in his attempt to stop the horses,
was thrown in front of the self binder and
the machine passed over his body, breaking a
number of his ribs and otherwise seriously
ihjuring him.
At Mankato, Mimi, the police ran in
gang of tramps who have been around the
city since the encampment. They found a
bunch of skeleton keys on the person of one
of them, and the supposition is that they
have been concerned in the numerous
burglaries that have been committed there
during the past two weeks.
At Saltwater, Mimi, on the 21st,
G. F. Holmberg, a young Swede was caught
by boring machine at the Schulenberg,
bCcckeler q Co.'S saw mill and his right
arm was nearly severed just above the wrist.
He also sustained severe bruises ON the
right side Of his body, and his clothing was
stripped from his body.
Pennington, Mimi, special 29th: An
attempt was made to wreck the passenger
train on the Iowa a. Minnesota division of
the Chicago, Milwaukee x st. Paul railway
due at this place at $3.50 p. m, by placing
ties up the track al point about IL miles
east of Wescott. The train stopped before
any damage was done.
The Harris brothers, for horse stealing
and W. H. Lyons for deadly assault, broke
jail at Black River Falls, Wis, on the 21st.
by forcing off the sheet iron ceiling of their
room and made their escape through a manf
hole in the roof, and by means of blankets
tied together and reaching to the ground.
1t is reported that William Mcintosh
Of Huron, OAK, who has been master me.
chanic of that division of the Northwestern
for nearly seven years, has been appointed
master mechanic of all the Northwestern
lines west of Winona to the Missouri, with
headquarters at Winona, Mimi.
The municipal officials of St. Paul
and Minneapolis, together with the Cham
Der OF Commerce and Board of Trade of
those cities are formulating an invitation
to President and Mrs Cleveland to visit
them when they come westward next
October.
A water5urst filed the working shaft
of the coal mine at Grand Junction, Iowa,
Monday. Five miners escaped, but Charles
Sanders, aged sixteen years, was inn
prisohsd- Men are constantly at work
pumping, hoping to save the boy.
Robert j. Mcguire. well known
newspaper man, died in the st. Louis Hos
pital Duluth. Mimi, July p, from the shock
of the amputation of his leg at the hip joint
on account of an abcess. He had been in